Mary Dove is the tale of a young woman who falls in love with the first man other than her father she ever sees; a story of a girl reared in a harsh land, who knows nothing of the church, or books, or war, or people; a story of a man who must teach her everything and who learns a secret about her even Mary Dove herself does not know.

Mary Dove

Rushing, Jane Gilmore

Literature & Fiction

Avon/Books

Rushing again demonstrates that her ear for the spare cadences of rural Texas speech, as well as a sensitivity to the spread of pain and obsession that can lie behind it, is acute and unexpectedly touching. The relentless documentation of supper, kitchen, and front porch small talk may require reader patience, but, with a slight twist or two, talk of ""fixing beans"" slides into a hurtful family history which narrator Gall and her kin take out, time after time, polish, reexamine, and rearrange. Divorced teacher Gail has moved in for the summer with mother Laura, whose weathered house may be the last one standing in the ghost community that was Walnut Grove. Pressured by son Paul, who has left school and wants to farm Laura's acres, Gall agrees to visit the neighboring relations: widowed Uncle Hugh, his son Stanfield, and his granddaughter Cyndi. Back and forth the families go, but, with the sudden, unwelcome announcement that Paul and Cyndi intend to marry, the old corrosive secrets surface--all centered on Laura's ""sin,"" which made her an outcast and blighted the lives of both Gall and Stanfield. At the close Laura, ""accepted"" once again, loses some but gains a kind of peace, and Paul and Cyndi press for a future. Although these young folks seem a mite over-noble, the speech, the landscape, and the mores are as immediate and arresting as the sputtering of a tractor on a long, quiet field. -- Kirkus Reviews

Raincrow

Reared in isolation by her father on the Western prairie, Mary Dove has been taught to fear only one thing. One sparkling October day it happens. The inevitable stranger rides in off the plains, and Mary Dove does what she had always promised her father she would—she shoots.Yet compassion overcomes Mary's fear. In remorse, she tends to the wounded stranger, and what follows is their tentative discovery of each other and a love story that weaves universal and timeless themes.The mother who died before Mary Dove could know her was African-American. And so completely has Mary Dove's father sheltered her that she cannot begin to comprehend what society would so cruelly teach her. Archetypal in their blamelessness and in how deeply they must suffer for their love, Mary Dove and her cowboy, "Red" Christopher Columbus Jones, are so thoroughly West Texan that they prove Rushing's mastery of character and place."Get away," she said"Now I ain't gonna hurt you," he said, "and I don't want to know nothing about you that you don't want to tell." He came a step closer."Stop right now," she said, "or I'll shoot.""You wouldn't," he said.He was so nearly right. She believed what he said—or nearly. But she had been afraid so long. And wasn't it a law of God to do what your father said? She trembled, looking into his smiling blue eyes. It would have been easier if he had been preparing to pounce, like the panther, or striking, like the snake. The rifle barrel dropped, a little. "I knew you wouldn't," he said, taking another step towards her."I have to," she said, and with a terrible struggle to hold the gun steady, she fired.

Classics

DOUBLEDAY

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The raincrow

Winds of Blame

Doubleday Books

Covenant of Grace

Teen & Young Adult

"A courageous woman reunites a family divided by a passion too painful to forget, too strong to forgive." 1979 Avon Paperback.

G.K. Hall

Against the Moon (Texas Tradition Series) (Volume 17)

United States

TCU Press

TEXAS TECHNOLOGICAL COLLEGE, beginning its rise among the sage brush and tumble weeds on 2,000 dusty acres at Lubbock's far outskirts in the mid 1920's, looked like an impossible dream. Its birth had come from a political storm that involved a governor's impeachment, the Ku Klux Klan, and the hopes of West Texans for an institution of higher learning that would serve the region's peculiar needs. Much of its life has been marked by political maneuvering and sectional power struggles as West Texas fought to overcome a seeming sectional prejudice by the rest of the state and struggled with its own feelings of inferiority. This penetrating look at Texas Tech University, reveals a history typical of many state colleges and universities the country over that have grown and changed in response to the needs of the people they serve. Too frank in their appraisal to win official sponsorship, the authors show themselves to be neither unloving critics nor uncritical lovers. No facet of Tech's life is neglected, as the narrative recreates the excitement of student activities and Red Raider athletics. Former students will find in these pages a call to nostalgia. But the authors, in their examination of Tech's past and contemplation of its future, offer a message also for parents, educators, and political leaders across the country. Tracing the social and economic parallels of Tech and the South Plains region, Nall and Rushing also have treated the singular relationship between "town and gown." Lubbock and the college, in a sense, grew up together, one maturing into a city while the other became a university. Texas Tech University today is a far cry from the regional school to which farm boys bent- on studying agriculture brought milk cows from home to help them pay their way. From much of its struggle, the institution has emerged victorious.

Evolution of a university: Texas Tech's first fifty years

Madrona Press

Walnut Grove, the first of Jane Gilmore Rushing's six West Texas novels, is the story of John Carlile's passage into manhood when the twentieth century was young. His story is intimately connected to the growth of the town of Walnut Grove and to the good and evil that are always present. In those days cotton was taking the place of cattle, and farmers like John's father gambled that they could live off the soil. When a prolonged drought threatens to make the struggle hopeless, John's passionate attachment to the land is underscored by the fear that he might have to leave it. The establishment of the first school opens new horizons for John and also sharpens his sensibilities. The building of the railroad brings the greatest change of all. For some it means prosperity. But with the arrival of the work gangs come temptation, tragedy, and conflict, all touching John closely. On the very day that Walnut Grove celebrates the opening of a through line, a culmination of heroic and disillusioning events forces John to a crucial decision about his life and his future.

Walnut Grove

Texas Tech University Press

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Mary Dove

Raincrow

Mary Dove

The raincrow

Winds of Blame

Covenant of Grace

The raincrow

Against the Moon (Texas Tradition Series) (Volume 17)

Evolution of a university: Texas Tech's first fifty years

Walnut Grove